Henry Ian Darling talks directly to the reader via a journal entry or such in this short story. He likes to collect odd things and sometimes those odd things give him a small adventure. In this story, he’ll need the help of his second wife, Clara, and his ghostly friend Bret. We learn early on that ...
Jack, who is 12, and his parents are planning a trip to the Lake District (Britain) for the holidays. They plan to share a cabin in the woods with Jack’s aunt, uncle, and their daughter Rosie. However, Jack has that feeling, that headache and nausea that tells him something bad will happen. He doesn...
Gavin and Alex started an English fashion model magazine not too long ago. It’s flirty and just skirting the edge of racy. They want to push the envelope without being trashy. But then model after another turns up mutilated and dead, with a third woman missing. The police are looking at Gavin and Al...
Anne Blake and her colleague, Frank Miller, run a psychiatric practice. They spend their days listening to people spin out their woes and do their best to help them where they can. Anne’s secretary, Sam, is a true gem, anticipating her needs with well timed coffee. However, nothing can ease Anne’s m...
Thomas has always been odd. But then one day when he was nearly 7 years old something mysterious happens. He doesn’t recall how he ended up in that forest. Things got odder afterwards, like all of Thomas’s hair falling out. Thomas keeps his secret of that night, what little he can remember. Meanwhil...
In a far future, humanity is tightly controlled, and has been, for several generations. Many of these rules and cultural norms were put in place to ensure the survival of the species. However, now may be the time to start a change and it starts by asking about the past, religion in general, and the...
"Triptychs (Mind's Eye Series Book 3)" is a wonderful and fascinating anthology. This one is based on a series of photographs that were randomly given to the authors as inspiration for their stories. One of the most rewarding parts of this experiment is for the reader to view the picture and have th...
13 by Julie Elizabeth Powell is one of the most imaginative horror novellas I have read in recent years. This author has a wonderful gift to create such a surreal world of nightmare vignettes, 13 of them and so expertly bring them together when the Joker is played.This novella is a card-playing casi...
Misadventures of Fatwoman by Julie Elizabeth Powell:Andi recalls her life as a baby, always eating and then as a child in school andall the terrors of being big and going on a date.Even as a young mother she would go on diets to help lose weight and they never worked.Although her daughter makes fun ...
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